Upcoming Author Chat: X-Men: Misfits authors, Dave Roman and Raina Telgemeier

Dave Roman

Dave is a co-collaborator, along with his wife Raina Telgemeier, on X-Men: Misfits, a new graphic novel series for Del Rey. Dave’s day job finds him working as an associate editor over at Nickelodeon Magazine. He is also a Harvey Award nominee, and an Ignatz and Web Cartoonists’ Choice award winner.

Wanna know more about Dave, his art, stories, and otherwise? Of course you do (that’s why you’re signing up for a chat reminder, yes?), so while you’re waiting for the live chat, why don’t you hop on over to his website: it’s yaytime!

Raina Telgemeier

Raina Telgemeier is a the co-collaborator, along with her husband Dave Roman, on X-Men: Misfits, a new graphic novel series for Del Rey. She’s also a writer and artist in her own right. Her work is frequently recognized as tops in it’s field. If you don’t believe us, just check out her awards rap sheet: Raina has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Eisner, Ignatz, Cybil, and Web Cartoonists’ Choice awards. To see her illustrations and learn other cool facts about Raina (except how she ended up with one of the coolest names in comics), check out her website: GoRaina.com!

Now, as you can tell by the short bios I have provided here, these two aren’t just collaborators, they’re married. And, according to our own inside sources, they have a reputation for being one of the cutest couples working in the industry. Why? Well, there’s no scientific evidence to prove this, but it might have something to do with the innovated way in which Dave asked Raina to marry him.

Want to know how he did it? He crafted a sneaky comic and asked Raina to illustrate it, and contained in that comic was his proposal. Sounds cool, eh? What’s cooler is that you can check out the comic, complete with a change in perspective (as it shifts from Dave’s art to Raina’s after the proposal) by clicking here: “How We Got Engaged!”

Okay, so to recap: